Friday 29 May 2009

Shuffle time!

The DUP, Sinn Féin and SDLP have all been talking about shuffling ministers, ending double mandates and making sure that representatives aren’t holding posts as MLA, MP, councillor and so on.

While political pundits have been expending time deciding who will stay and who will go, party officials across the country are hoping that shuffling doesn’t mean re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic!

What it may mean though is that all Northern Ireland parties, especially the DUP and Sinn Féin, will have to bring to the fore untried and untested candidates for the next Assembly election in 2011. Now that could prove interesting!

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